The Republican journal., 1887-08-18
Maine Matters.
PROHIBITION IN MAINE.

NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ALL OVER THE STATE
PROHIBITION IN MAINE.
Maine paper recently sent out the follow
ing questions to three hundred representative
men of the State:
DO you know whether there are any secret
grog shops in your town? Ii so, how many?
Are there any open grog shops in your town
(meaning thereby open bars, either OH the
street front, or in rear room with bar ac-
so on, as in old license daysD
Has drinking or drunkenness increased in
your place in the past two years!
Have you any active moral suasion move
ment, either reform club or other temperance
society in your midst?
If the law is not well enforced, is the fault
official or public?
Are the officers lax In spite of healthy pub
lie opinion or because Of lax public senti-
ment!
In your judgment has the number of rum
the new law took effecty
Will you be kind enough to make suggestions
regarding the needs of prohibition and temper
ance in Maine at present!
You will perceive that we want two things:
1st-Well established facts regarding the liquor
question in your locality.
2d-Your opinions.
The replies received and published furnish
the most exhaustive defence of success that
any legislation ever showed in the history of
our beloved commonwealth. The complete
ness of the enforcement of the law in three
fourths of Maine is proven; and in less than
one-tcnth is the law dead letter. Returns
from many of the smaller towns not included
in this enquiry are all of one tenor: ''No open
or secret rum shops, little drunkenness or
drinking, law well enforced" Only few old
cider drunkards appear to survive in the coun
try towns; there is less drinking than two years
ago; the law is well enforced-are the vast ma
jority of the reports. In the few larger points
where public opinion is lax, Gov. BodWelPs re-
cent order to sheritfs already has had healthy
influence, notably in Hancock county. Pocket
pedd!ing and private express packages are now
the chief barriers in the way of the further
triumphs of prohibition; but that prohibition
has driven the traffic to straits, is the conces-
sion of the Pocket-Pedler and of the express
distributor. There has been manifest decline
of gro@ shops disguised drug stores; but
there will be Il yet further decline after the
prim0 facte business gets well at work.
AN HISTORICAL DISPUTE SETTLED.
The dispute which has long ragged in the
Maine Historical Society. concerning the lOca-
tion of PentecoSt harbor, may now be con-
sidcrcd settled. This was the harbor where
George Weymouth lay in 1908, near the cr-
trance to a river which he described and which
has been identified by various writers as the
!'cnobscot, the kcnncbec and the st. George.
III. dets III Ills cAtCllcHI tuIIOn OF hOSttf
report of Waymoutll's voyage, has established
strong presumption in favor of the st.
George; but dire It, positive contemporary tcs-
timony has hitherto been wanting. This lack
has been supplied by the third book of Suffolk
deeds, now printed. In this book is found
mromwelrs commission appointing Colonel
Thomas Temple governor of Acadia, in 1896.
tlty-one years after Waymouth'> voyage. when
men who had accompanied Weymouth might
have been still living aud all the public records
and charts relating to the VOYAGE We're still
accessible. In this commission the Protector
describes Acadia, tracing the boundary along
the coast of Nova Scotia to the bottom of the
bay of Fundy and then westward to st. John.
land thence along the coast to PeAtecoA amt
Mc :trcr Of ST. GcOrye. IT, NuscONGNS, situate
upon the confines of New England" The
Pcmaquid settlement, to the westwar, of Mus
conguS bay. was excepted from Temples GOV
crnmcEt ''Pcntccost'' therefore, could not be
west OF pcnlaqud, and the phrase ''pcntecost
and the river of st. George" apparently places
the harbor at the mouth of that river. Mr..
Alexander Johnston of Wiscasset calls attcn-
tion to this interesting document in the current
number of the Portland Transcript. Port
land Advertiser.
MAINE GETTYSBURG MOVEMENTS.
The executive committee of the Gettysburg
Commission issued notices in June last to all
the Maine regiments and batteries. through
their member on the commission, to send the
design of the monument that each desired to
have erected on the battlefield, to the chairman
Of said committee. In compliance with that
notice some of the designs have already been
sent i'll and others are in the hands of c0mpc-
tent dralghtSmen awaiting completion. After
all the designs have been completed and accept
cd by the executive committee and the illscrip-
tions and legends approved hy the slperiil-
tcndent appointed for that purpose by the
Gettysburg Memorial Association. the COM
I,-.r
for doing the whole job of building and erect
ing the fifteen monuments. The committee
can probably get the most favorable terms in
this way. There are now ninety-four montl-
mcnts erected on the battlefield ranging in
price from a few hundred dollars to several
In the National Cemetery at Gettysburg the
following are the States represented and the
number of their dead
Maine. ...l04 Connecticut ........ -
New iiampshirc...... 40 New York;. ..... SCI
lbs Pcmnsyiyania,. ;y$5 s3
Rhode Island. ....... II Delaware ........ -
West Virginia.. II Maryland...... ...... -
.)hln ..-.. .........l3l Wisconsin,. 1:i
Indiana ............... so Minnesota. 30
llinos..... L. $. Regulars. ;. l39
Michigan. Unknown dead .......97s
The above numbers do not inclu.le those
buried in Evergreen Cemetery at Gettysburg
which adjoins the National Cemetery.
REGIMENTAL REUNIONS.
The 10Th reunion of the 18th Maine Regiment
Association will be held at Skowhegall, Me-,
on Thursday, August 18th, 1887. Arrange
for one fare for the round trip. The boys will
receive the same cordial reception that has
been given by people at former reunions, so let
all be sure and be there. Let the survivors of
the old 10Th Maine have one more big rally.
The annual reunion of the 18th Maine Regi-
Association, (baip Z tbo 4
of ''muster in,") will be held at Oxford, Me-,
on Thursday. Aug. 18th, by invitation of the
residing in Oxford and vicinity.
There will be several designs for monuments
submitted to the association, in order that they
may select one to be erected upon the battle
field of Gettysburg, upon the spot occupied by
the 18th on July ID, 1868.
The Reunion of the 1>t Me. Heavy Artillery
will be held at Ninahavcn, Aug. 23rd. Stmr
Rockand has been chartered to take the MEM
bers of the Regiment and their invited friends
from Bangor. leaving directly after the arrival
Of the first morning trains from east and west,
returning in the evening. The Rockland going
down will not stop at the river landings below
Bucksport. Members "oin. by other routes
can secure round trip tickets over the railroad
and boats to ROcklanh and Bangor for one
fare, on presenting this card Those going
from Eastern Maine by the Mt Desert and Ma
chias boats, and from Boston, will buy tickets
to Rockland and thence by steamer. A good
time is promised.
DIVORCES IN MAINE.
BY an appropriation made by Congress at its
last session to be expended under the National
Labor Bureau, statistics regarding divorce are
to be collected throughout the Union to aid the
legislatures in enacting similar laws regulating
divorce. August lst, experts were sent out by
the Bureau into New England, one mar being
assigned to Connecticut and Rhode Island, one
to Massachusetts and another to Vermont and
New Hampshire. The agent for Maine, Mr..
George q. kimbal of Washington, ID. c., has
arrived ut Augusta, and begun his labor of eN-
amining the record ut the Court House. This
being the beginning of the work its magnitude
Or length can hardly be correctly estimated
now, although something like two weeks will
probably be needed for that county, after which
the other counties in the State will be visited in
rotation.
After New England is completed the corps
Of experts employed will be transferred to
other States. The statistics cover a period of
marriages, number of divorces, what the COM
plaint was for and by which party made, and
children remaining after a divorce was grant
ed. Mr.. kimball was Il native of York coui,-
ty, and a graduate of I5ow,loin College, class
Of 1862.
LETTING THEIR ELE CTEIC LIGHTS SHINE.
The Thomson Houston Electric Light Co.. of
IIoulton, started up their lights Monday night,
August ! and with few exceptions the lights
gave good satisfaction. The few that did net
work well have been replaced with others, and
no doubt all will work to the satisfaction of
customers. Nearly two-thirds of the dynamos'
light capacity have already been taken by the